Major Arrested Testify in the Lichfield Trials Have Abandoned Their Witness-Stand Strike Because "We Don't Want Those Guys WASHINGTON, June 9 (AP)—U
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ONE YEAR AGO TODAY USAFE WEATHER REPORT American forces on Okinawa gain NORTH & WEST: Overcast with low clouds and rain throughout most of day. ground against fierce resistence. Max. 73, Min. 50; SOUTH & EAST: Partly cloudy during day with showers m tne TWO YEARS AGO TODAY THE late morning and afternoon, temperature In Normandy, Allied forces cap- decreasing slightly in afternoon, Max. it, ture Bayeux, five miles inland. Min. 55; BERLIN: Partly cloudy and con- Lt^^p Fotcat in the Ewoptan Theater tinued fair until evening. Volume 2, Number 160 20 pfg., 20 gr„ 2 fr., 1 d Monday, June 10, 1946 Lichfield Gls Explain 'Strike9 Army Recovers Refused to Testify In Protest ol Kronberg Gems; 'Injustices' BAD NAUHEIM, June 9 (AP)— Most of the soldiers who refused to Major Arrested testify in the Lichfield trials have abandoned their witness-stand strike because "we don't want those guys WASHINGTON, June 9 (AP)—U. S. Army investigators an- who beat us up to get away with it," nounced that "practically all" of the jewels, valued at $1,500,000 Albert Beach of Fall River, Mass., said today. taken from Kronberg Castle, near Frankfurt, had been recovered. Beach is one of the 19 witnesses Some jewels not accounted for earlier were found Friday ■whose refusal to talk for 11 days night in a box at the Illinois Central Railroad station following stymied the prosecution of two of- the interrogation of Col. J. W. Durant and WAC Capt. Kathleen ficers accused of brutality to Lich- B. Nash Durant, his wife. field guardhouse prisoners. The couple are being held in connection with the removal Most of the others gave similar of the jewels. explanations of their sudden switch Meanwhile at Frankfurt, the arrest of Maj. David F. Watson yesterday when they volunteered to The seven former Lichfield Reinforcement Depot guards charged with go back into court and tell about brutality against GI prisoners. Left to right, seated, are William F. Pond, ^of Burlingame, Calif., in con- their experiences at Lichfield after Mike Koblinski and Ed Baker. Standing, left to right, are Albert Beach, Robert Cox, Leon Richie and Otto Holt. _ Keystone photo twice previously defying court Fi fat to Bar jewels, was announced by the threats of military punishment. while the defendants against whom prived of cigarettes, radios, news- USFET Provost Marshal. They went on strike in protest they are asked to testify walk free papers and PX rations. Brig. Gen. George S. Eyster, chief against "Army injustices," they told "laughing at us." "I've been given worse treatment Teen Age Draft of the USFET Public Relations reporters interviewing them in the That guards convicted of beating while waiting to testify than I ever Division, revealed that Watson had barbed-wire stockade where they them drew shcjrt jail terms or $60 got at Lichfield," declared John been seized Friday by Criminal In- are confined on varied charges. "while I go AWOL and get 20 years." Ayers of Rock Hill, S. C. Brews in House vestigation agents and placed in con- The witnesses clustered clamor- That "no justice will be done until "But it was not doing us any good WASHINGTON. June 9 (UP)—A finement, pending formal charges. ously around the reporters to voice these trials are moved to the United to refuse to testify," said Robert E. The major was said to be attached these complaints: States and out of this Army com- Cox of Omaha, Neb. strong fight to retain a ban on in- to USFET's personnel division. That they are imprisoned—some mand." "We decided there was no sense in ductions until next Oct. 15 and a A spokesman for the Provost said "on trumped-up charges"— That they are ill-treated and de- (Continued on Page 8) provision barring the drafting of Marshal said "we are not prepared teen-agers in the draft extension at this time to reveal Watson's con- bill was promised today by House nection with the theft." conferrees. Col. Ralph W. Pierce, chief of the Union Leaders Appointed I It A Chief Ends Members of a seven-man House Provost Marshal's criminal investi- conference group to work out a new gation branch, said that Durant had bill before the present stop-gap 77-Day Fast legislation expires June 30 said they WASHINGTON, June 9 (UP)— would insist on a measure passed by To Department of Labor BELFAST, June 9 (AP)—Crumlin The Army got $10,000 worth of the House last fall. free service when an Austrian- From Press Dispatches Road Prison authorities said last Under this proposal, inductions of born jewel appraiser paused to WASHINGTON, June 9—Two labor union men and a lawyer will night that David Fleming, hunger 18 and 19-year-olds would stop and classify, sort and identify the re- become assistant secretaries of labor in the reorganization of the depart- striking Irish Republican Army pri- there would be a draft holiday until covered jewels of the German ment suggested by Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach. soner, abandoned his protest fast October. The Army and Navy would House of Hesse. President Truman nominated John W. Gibson, former Michigan CIO at 9 p, m. after going without food have to depend entirely upon "My normal fee is one per cent, council chief, who has been acting first assistant secretary; Philip Annan, for 77 of the last 81 days. voluntary enlistment for manpower. but this time I did it for nothing," secretary treasurer of the Ohio State Federation of Labor and David A. House Version Pushed Labert von Steinner said, as he Morse, Newark attorney and general Prison doctors immediately or- dered a diet of brandy, milk and Four of the seven House com- gave a tentative value of $1,000,- counsel of the National Labor Rela- 000 to the recovered loot. He said tions Board. Troops Thrilled glucose for the shrunken Irishman mittee members said they would who started his hunger strike March press for this House version. A that it would take two weeks to Meanwhile on the troubled labor place a value on the jewels. front, Government conciliators tossed By Demonstration 20 in a bid for better treatment of canvass of seven Senate members political prisoners. on the conference committee in- new suggestions into the dead- turned over the principal jewels locked maritime negotiations as the Ot P-80 Jet Plane Fleming, who was reported in dicated that they would stand 4-3 a "faintish mood," announced his for the Senate bill. which had been removed from their dispute between seamen and ship WIESBADEN, June 9 (AP)—The decision to end his hunger strike settings and placed in a cardboard owners went into the final week be- The joint committee will start de- U. S. Army's jet-propelled P-80 without warning, prison officials liberations sometime next week. package. fore the nation-wide shipping strike Pierce said he thought that some scheduled for Saturday. flashed its speed for occupation said. Visitors had urged him to give With the present line-up, a deadlock troops in Germany today with a up after another outlawed IRA is possible and the committee might of the valuables had been sent by Shore Leave Suggested 219-mile demonstration flight from prisoner, Sean McCoughey, starved have to report failure to reach an (Continued on Page 8) himself to death in Maryborough Hoping to point the way to agree- Bremen to Wiesbaden in 26.8 min- agreement. ment on the key issue of length of Prison, Dublin, on May 1. However, most Congressional the work week at sea, government utes for an average speed of 502.55 Fleming, serving a 12-year prison miles per hour. sources have predicted that com- representatives suggested that mer- term on treason and larceny char- promises would be reached and a King of Siam chant seamen be given one day of Lockheed test pilot Robert Harlow ges, said that 166 IRA members in bill would be approved before the paid shore leave for each 14 days at of Burbank, Calif., and Capt. Jerry Irish and English jails were being deadline. sea. The merchant seamen are de- S. Stidham of Miles City, Mont., discriminated against. Dies in 21st Yr. manding a 44-hour work week Would Raise Draft Age then put the Shooting Star through One of the compromises proposed at sea. its dizzying paces for several Ship operators insist that anything is that the draft age be raised to 19 less than the present 56-hour work thousand soldiers attending a dis- Late Bulletin years. Another would permit indue week is impractical. There is no sign play of U. S. Air Force planes in- tion of 18-year-olds, but for domestic of a break in the deadlock. cluding the only B-29 in the ET. DUBUQUE, Iowa, June 9 (UP)— service only. In the Hudson and Manhattan There are 32 of the jet fighters Police said 16 persons were known Many members of Congress have in Germany, now being tested at reported a strong sentiment through- Railroad strike, Robert A. W. Carle- to be dead and 19 injured in a fire Bremen for early assignment to the that raged through the Canfield out the country and among the ton, president of the road, urged 55th' Fighter Group at Giebelstadt, Hotel, the city's second largest. troops overseas for the continuation President Truman to take over the a former German jet-plane base. Nine bodies were found among the of selective service. The present road which has been strikebound for blackened remains of beds today.